Ten thousand poppies were dropped from a Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft, which was widely used in the Second World War, after a ceremony at St Michael and All Angels Church in Cosby on Remembrance Sunday.

Thousands of people attended the annual Remembrance Day service at Victoria Park, Leicester, today (SundayNOV11) to pay their respects to the nation’s fallen servicemen and women and to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.